[Ads-l] another non-fiction novel

[Jonathan Lighter]

I first heard of Mel Gibson in the mid '80s too....

JL

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, it's not the use of "novel" that I was stunned by... more the idea of
> Mel Gibson as the beloved James Murray. (Mel's had the rights to
> Winchester's book for years now, but I don't think anyone guessed he was
> going to cast himself as Murray.) Or is that what you meant by "weird and
> disgusting"?
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> >stunned by this news
>>
>> Remember, I first noticed this usage in the mid '80s.
>>
>> Still weird and disgusting though.
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/02/mel-gibson-sean-penn-oed-creators-professor-madman
>> > Mel Gibson and Sean Penn to play creators of Oxford English Dictionary
>> > Based on the bestselling novel, Professor and the Madman will star the
>> > Oscar-winners as two obsessive men who worked together in the 19th
>> century.
>> >
>> > ---
>> >
>> > (I'm too stunned by this news to comment on anything other than the use
>> of
>> > the word "novel" for Simon Winchester's non-fiction book "The Professor
>> and
>> > the Madman," published in the UK as "The Surgeon of Crowthorne.")
>> >
>> > --bgz
>> >
>>
>>
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